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indians are using technology like tele medicine to treat patients and using innovative procedures which attract patients from all across the world w a growing middle class, more and more can afford this type of health care but -- >> we have a much larger group of people who are poor and don't have the means and they don't have access to this kind of health care. but this is the nature of the challenge that india faces today. >> sometimes the success in india, infant mortality is down. it's less than half of what it was 20 years ago. in addition, life ex pact ant see, even though it's lower than in the u.s., in the last 62 years, india has reduced the absolute poverty by more than half, lisa. so it's an interesting dichotomy and quite a unique challenge. >> brooke, thank you for that report. we'll have reports of the health care system around the borld in india and turkey. >>> more than one piece of the health care program, the public option a. government-run insurance program which would be an alternative to private insure ers. opponents say it would grant private insurers out of busine

on the back. >> one of the things that maybe the two of us or three or four of us should do. i think cnn knows how to hold town hall meetings. you know how to do it. maybe we should really step up, have town hall meetings and maybe go across this country between now and the vote in november. >> well, the vote in november, heidi, what do you think that vote would be were it to come in november? >> i don't think it's going to go well for the democrat. my radio station is holding a town hall meeting this friday in las vegas because most of our congressional delegation is not doing it, not responsive to the people. my listeners are fears yurious. i think they're all worried about 2010, and they should be because the republicans have wisely stepped away from this. notice how they're not saying too much? >> i was just talking about that with congressman blackburn. where are they? i'm not sure that we know entirely that we want them back, but where are they? >> lou, i think we hold a town hall meeting every single day on our programs. that's basically what we do. and i think to joe'

this un-american stuff. >> it's not a phrase i would use. i would use wrong. that was at the end of the meeting. congressman had covered everything he wanted to cover. that was at the end of the meeting. so it wasn't hijacking anything in the middle. >> hank, let's wrap it up with the president and guadalajara, mexico, saying this nation in the 21st century is not defined by its borders but we're not going to be doing health -- we're not going to be doing so-called comprehensive immigration reform. >> tell that to the family of the border patrol agent killed on those borders. drug trafficking increasing. drug gangs in action. get ready to hit the mexican border. we could have the same kind of problems again. >> thank you very much. rich, thank you. we appreciate it. >> nice to be with you. >>> secretary of state clinton today responding sharply to a mistranslated question as it turns out at a meeting in congo. a translator asked what her husband, bill clinton thought about communist china's offer of aid to congo. >> you want to tell me to tell you what my husb

cialis for daily use. so when the moment is right, you can be ready. >>> we continue our coverage of health care systems around the world, and what we can learn from them. and tonight we have a report on health care in ireland. now, ireland ranked 15th in a european survey of quality of health care. the life expectancy in ireland is almost 80 years, almost two years longer than in this country. one of the problems facing ireland is a shrinking tax revenue, and that's making it difficult for ireland to pay for its health care reform plan. >> five years ago, flush with prosperity, ireland started to reform its health care system. it began centralizing health care, and offering higher salaries to doctors to switch to the public system of health care and give up their private patients. of richard saltsman of memory university has studied many european health care systems. >> essentially what they did was increase the pay for hospital physicians, increase it quite a good deal, but in return, those hospital phys

and join us on twitter. up next does the president think doctors are worth more money than practicing medicine and helping their patients? >> doctors may look at reimbursement system and say i'll make more money if i take this kid's tonsils out. >> we'll ask experts on the face-off debate and report on the quality of sweden's health care system. all receive the same care. they say imports always get the best mileage. well, do they know this malibu offers an epa estimated 33 mpg highway? they never heard that. which is better than a comparable toyota camry or honda accord? they're stunned. they can't believe it. they need a minute. i had a feeling they would. there's never been more reasons to look at chevy. >>> we continue our coverage of health care systems around the world. we're examining public health care systems to see what we might learn. tonight, it's the state of health care in sweden. sweden, ranking fifth in a european survey of health care quality. the life expectancy, by the way, in sweden is 81

great to have you with us, jeff. a and president and ceo of a polling company, kelly ann conway. >> thank you. >> let's look at the most recent polls here, start with the abc "washington post" poll which has declined from 65 to 59%, the cbs "new york times" poll from 63 to 57%. nbc/wall street journal 56 to 53%. jeff, should the white house be worried? >> well, nobody likes to see their numbers going down, but the reality is that president obama is serving a at very difficult time and he is trying to do very difficult things. what i would be paying attention to if i were the white house were the fundamental sounds in terms of his reputation and how people see him. what we also know from the polls is people still think he is a very smart president and -- who has been dealt a very difficult hand and that at a very fundamental level, they like him and they are rooting for him. >> you are talking about a lot of empathy there. >> when people stop rooting for him that is when they really are worried. look, these are tough

stay with us. we continue. >>> we're examining health care systems all around the world to see what we can learn. as the nation begins to debate a health care proposition. we've reported on nine health care systems around the world so far. we've looked at rates of satisfaction and life expectancy in those countries. 83% of americans say they are satisfied with the quality of our health care system. life expectancy in the united states, however, is only 78.1 years. that's right, i said only. in denmark, 90% of the danes are satisfied with their publicly funded system. and life expectancy is about the same as the united states. in germany where more than half of the enginehalf of the germans aren't satisfied. life expectancy in the uk is 78.9 year in canada, life expectancy almost 81 years. 84% of the french satisfied with their health care system, life expectancy, 81 years. 46% of the folks in the netherlands say their system needs change. the life expectancy, 80 years. switzerland 'health care syst

joining us, dr. jeffrey segal, he's founder and ceo of medical justice and alan ripka, a medical malpractice attorney. good to have you both with us. >> thank you. >> in numbers, these show the numbers, medical malpractice claims and insurance premiums make up about 1% of total health care costs but the ama estimates so-called defensive medicine, a direct result of the lawsuits costing us $150 billion. let me start, if i may, with you, dr. segal. what's your reaction? >> my reaction, that number $150 billion may actually be an underestimate. i can tell you that next year, 50,000 doctors will receive a letter stating, hey, look, you've been sued. once you've been sued, that will change the doctor's behavior from then on. what is the cost? the cost is anywhere from $100 billion to $200 billion of unnecessary tests just to keep the doctor from sitting in a witness chair again. that amount of money will allow us to purchase health insurance policy for every american and pay for a policy and some change l

or cialis for daily use. ask your doctor about cialis today, so when the moment is right, you can be ready. >>> americans all across this country are going to town hall meetings and expressing their views on the health care legislation. many of them are critical of the president's plans, but the administration and its supporters are blasting those critics as extremists. simply for exercising their first amendment rights. bill tucker has our report. >> reporter: the numbers help explain why there's such passion in the health care debate. 74% say their families or other americans will be helped by obama's proposals, yet at the same time, 83% of americans say they're satisfied with their coverage. people, like craig miller in pennsylvania. >> one day god's going to stand before you and he's going to judge you and the rest of your damn cronies up on the hill. >> reporter: a passion apparently unanticipated and feared by some. some political leaders have been quick to dismiss those voices. >> the groups are not ne

bishop, good to have you with us. the government has a moral responsibility to provide health care for everyone? >> i think it has a moral obligation to make affordable health care to everyone. continue has an obligation for that. i think part of the role of government is to offer the safety net needed for the most vulnerable of people. so i think people not choosing to work but the working poor for whom giving up a house payment to be able to provide health insurance for their family is simply not possible and then to choose between making a mortgage payment or deciding to pay for their health insurance and they choose the mortgage payment and for people out of work and certainly right now in the economic crisis, people who have been out of work for some time, their cobra has run out, i think we have to ask the question, what happens with zsh i'm really asking the basis for your statement that the federal government has a moral obligation. >> i guess the question is -- >> that's the question. leonard, that's the ques

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appreciate you all being with us. thank you very much, ron, thank you very much, hank. >>> coming up at the top of the hour, campbell brown. campbell? >> hey, there, lou. we're going to keep fact-checking the debates made in the debate. >>> and the growing outrage after passengers are trapped on the ground for nearly seven hours. why we'll still waiting for a passengers' bill of rights. >>> plus, an incredible story, this tv anchor accused of killing drug dealers to boost his ratings. we've got the top stories plus our "mashup-" lou. >> we appreciate it. we'll riebt back. (announcer) illness doesn't care where you live... ...or if you're already sick... ...or if you lose your job. your health insurance shouldn't either. so let's fix health care. if everyone's covered, we can make health care as affordable as possible. and the words "pre-existing condition" become a thing of the past... we're america's health insurance companies. supporting bipartisan reform that congress can build on.

or cialis for daily use. ask your doctor about cialis today, so when the moment is right, you can be ready. >>> president obama has been using religious language in an attempt to draw support for his health care legislation. just last week, the president had a conference call with faith-based groups in which he said, "we have an ethical and moral obligation to look out for one another." well, this brings us to the subject of tonight's "face-off." should the president be injecting religion into the health care debate? joining me now from baton rouge, the president of the family research council, tony perkins. and from washington, the president of so jurners, a christian social justice organization, is the reverend jim wallace. we're going to get started first, i want to play some of that sound from the president and i want to get both of your reactions. tell me what you think about this. >> what i consider a core, ethical, and moral obligation that we look out for one another, that i am my brother's keeper and

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one health care leader joins us and tells us not to let the details get in the way. some of the best political analysts join me to assess that. and will tell us exactly what that means, next. >>> encouraging economic news today. consumer spending rose in june for the second straight month. spending up .4% for the month following a .1% increase in may. and another positive sign for the housing market. pending home sales up for a fifth, that's right, a fifth straight month. the number of people signing contracts to buy homes rose by 3.6% in june. but not this weekend, democratic legislators who support the president's health care plan are facing considerable protests and demonstrations. here's one example now from a town hall event with wisconsin's congressman. >> kill the bill. [ inaudible ] >> joining me to talk about this and other topics, three of my favorite political analysts. ron christy, erol lewis, and democratic strategist ank sheinkopf. looks like quite a reception there and already the debate as organized by the white house at least, is are these real grass

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